William Perlman/The Star-LedgerKris Jenkins (77) walks off the field after suffering a season-ending knee injury in the Jets' season opener against Baltimore.

Kris Jenkins said he still loves to play football and he wants to end his NFL career on his own terms, rather than be forced into retirement because of the torn ACL he suffered in the Jets' season-opening 10-9 loss to Baltimore Sept. 13.

"I like playing football,'' Jenkins told reporters in the Jets' locker room, which he visited after today's practice. "Me coming back doesn’t have anything to do with anything other than I just want to play and I want to finish the way I want to.''

Jenkins, 31, suffered a season-ending tear of the ACL in his left knee in Week 6 last season and worked hard to rehab the knee and make a comeback this season. The four-time Pro Bowler lost weight and made it through the preseason before being re-injured against the Ravens. Jenkins announced last week on his Facebook page that he would attempt to comeback one more time, despite being a 10-year veteran who know has had three ACL tears (he tore the ligament in his right knee in 2005, while playing for the Carolina Panthers).

"The amount of adversity that I’ve been in, just throughout the course of my life, has been tremendous,'' Jenkins said. "And I don’t want to cap it off with more adversity. I want to be able to cap it off in a way that I can at least look back and smile upon. And that’s it. I’ve taken a lot of time just to become the man that I am. I want to celebrate that as I leave this game.

"For some players, past the glory, past everything, that’s what football is for us. It’s been our ticket out of the environment we grew up in, and it’s also been the opportunity to learn how to be a man and take care of our business. And football has given me so much, I just want to be able to walk away from it in a way that is just going to put the icing on the cake.''

Ohio State looked into allegations made by a former NFL agent who said Jets wide receiver Santonio Holmes told him he had taken money from another agent while he was playing in college for the Buckeyes. The school has closed the investigation after Holmes denied the story.

On Wednesday, Holmes told reporters at Jets practice "the allegations are false,'' and insisted he did not know Josh Luchs, the former agent whose story appears in the Oct. 18 edition of Sports Illustrated and claims Luchs paid several college football players while they were still in school, hoping they would sign with him. Luchs claimed he met with Holmes in 2005, when Holmes was a junior at Ohio State, and Holmes told him he was wasting his time, because he was already accepting money from an agent and had been for years.

Cornerback Darrelle Revis (hamstring) and linebacker Calvin Pace (foot) were limited in practice. Revis is listed as questionable on the Jets' injury report, while Pace is probable.